page_title: Shigeaki Saegusa
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Shigeaki Saegusa / Career
caption_attribution_description: Shigeaki Saegusa, Professor of Tokyo College of Music, ate the dinner in Tōkyō Metropolis on January 24, 2010.
context_page_description: Shigeaki Saegusa is a Japanese composer.
context_section_description: Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko.  Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002.  His newest opera, Jr. Butterfly is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
  He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.  Other anime he has written for are Astro Boy (1980), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve.
caption: Shigeaki Saegusa (January 24, 2010)
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